Engager

Alternative Wellness Lifestyle Brand & Product Accelerator Lab
We build new plant medicine and wellness brands, products and businesses, and grow existing ones.

We are a global team of battle-tested entrepreneurs, makers and marketers accelerating growth of brands in the alternative health and wellness category.  

We spot emerging trends, identify new growth opportunities, bring new solutions to market, and modernize the way that alternative wellness businesses engage with consumers via entertainment, experiential marketing, lifestyle marketing and emerging technologies.

The team has deep expertise in taking brands from pre-seed or seed stage to series B and beyond.  Deep experience with lifestyle marketing in music, gaming, podcasting, film, TV, cannabis, beverage and technology. 

Team has collectively accomplished the following:

$1BN + in Revenues Generated
60+ Brands Built
$100 million+ Funds Raised

Engager Global is a brand innovation and venture-building studio that helps alternative wellness companies accelerate growth and innovation. We employ a team of entrepreneurs, creators, and marketers to work alongside clients in spotting emerging trends, identifying new growth opportunities, and bringing new solutions to market. Our approach optimizes the agility of startups by facilitating rapid innovation and leveraging influencers of all levels to grow brand equity as well as revenues on a global basis.

Optimized For the Following Business Categories:

- Nootropics
- Adaptogens
- Functional Mushrooms
- Kratom
- Kanna
- Psychedelics
- Cannabis
- Alternative Wellness Therapies
- Alternative Wellness Retreats
- Biohacking products and services

Founder and Chief Revenue Officer

PLANT Entrepreneurial Institute

- Building a global online education platform specializing in courses for cannabis, psychedelic, and plant medicine businesses.
- Leading a team of experienced operators to create and deliver high-quality courses taught by industry professionals with real-world experience.
- Successfully launched the flagship course, the Cannabis Brand Accelerator, as part of the Cannapreneur Pocket MBA program, catering to the growing demand in the cannabis industry.
- In collaboration with Grupo Education in Puebla, Mexico, to ensure smooth functioning and growth of the platform.

Founder

Heavy Brands

- Owning and operating the Heavy Grass brand: cannabis flower products in California.
- Contribute to the development of innovative cannabis products, including small-batch, top-shelf cannabis and extract-infused prerolls, that cater to the rebellious and counterculture-loving metal community.

Board Member/Co-Founder

Bee-Nails, LLC

Board Of Advisors

Engager Brands

Engager Brands builds, owns and operates a portfolio of authentic cannabis brands targeting underserved demographics. We create, market and license our brands starting in California and then taking them throughout the world.

Chief Executive Officer and Founder

PROHBTD Media

PRØHBTD Media was a global consumer goods and marketing company with a mission to lead cannabis from the black market to the supermarket. As PRØHBTD we built the largest catalog of broadcast quality cannabis video content, the largest cannabis multi-platform network and leading cannabis agency with 60+ brand projects. 

Our portfolio included lifestyle and wellness brands across hemp, CBD and THC including flagship icon PRØHBTD, Hempathy, Ceeby Dee’s, Hot Nife, The Patch Co., and Heavy Grass. We also counted exclusive partnerships in our arsenal including Global Licensing Expo, Advertising Week, Beanstalk Licensing Agency, and Postmedia.

www.prohbtdmedia.com

Chief Business Officer, COO and Founder

Soteria Intelligence

Soteria Intelligence is a social media threat assessment company that provides monitoring and consulting services to individuals and organizations around the world.

Advisor

Engager Digital

Engager Digital helps content providers grow and retain their audiences.  They also provide business development, sales strategy and digital marketing services.  A primary focus is on growing the overall businesses of media companies.  Engager also serves as a new business incubator.  

Client services include:

* Online video, influencer marketing and shopper engagement programs.
* Digital media strategy/business development 
* Online/mobile/social solutions for brands, agencies, and digital businesses.
* Application and site development strategy


Clients & Partners (Past and Present): Audible, St Martins Press, Simon & Schuster, Oyster, Mediakix, Prodege, Cakeworks, Juntobox Films, Creative Money Works, Scratch Music Group, Songbird, Lodgenet, I VOTE, Platinum Edge, Screenpush, Stauffer.

Creative Money Works

Creative Money Works' mission is to help meet the needs of low income children, work to create a better financial future for them and conduct research to improve financial literacy content for children.

Board of Advisors

Dather

Dather is a social media platform for event sponsors and organizers. Dather is now part of broader offering called Event Hub which offers white labeled end-to-end digital services and technology solutions for events.  The suite of solutions raise awareness pre event, engages audiences during the event, and provides a post event activation platform along with analytics.  

Dather also represents other cutting edge digital media services and technologies including a turnkey paid media solution that provides access to a highly engaged and targeted audience of 7.5M+ users on web and mobile.

Clients include: Samsung/AT&T Glee Live Tour, Jagermeister Music Tour, Remy Cointreau, John Lennon Educational Tour, Juntobox Films, Rihanna

Kieve is the co-founder of Dather and serves as the lead on all business development, sales, operations, product development and fundraising efforts.  He is also a Founder in the Founder Institute.

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Do you want to unlock untapped revenue for your alernative wellness business or brand?
Are you generating over $1 million annually?
Do you want to 5-10x that over the next 3-5 years?
 
I run Engager, a growth accelerator program for alternative wellness businesses.  We partner with companies to scale their businesses exponentially and cost effectively.

Engager is optimized to help the following business categories: 

Nootropics
Adaptogens
Functional Mushrooms
Kratom
Kanna
Psychedelics
Cannabis
Alternative Wellness Therapies
Alternative Wellness Retreats
Biohacking products and services

After a collective 70+ years of building brands and businesses, our team at Engager is ready to leverage everything we've learned about scaling a company, its sales, and its funding.

We have collectively generated over $1 billion in revenues across cannabis, beverages, music, media, tech, and fashion.   We have built over 60 brands.

We can grow your current brand or partner with you to build you a new one.

Interested in learning more?

DM me or set up a Discovery Call via the link in my headline.

Kieve Huffman

CannabisBPO

Identified the need for a cannabis-specific contact center provider to serve the sector. Conceptualized, designed, and implemented a go-to-market strategy to create and launch the CannabisBPO brand to the global cannabis marketplace. Built a client portfolio of MSO, LP, leading CBD brands, device manufacturers, industry conferences, and more.

Leveraged background in customer experience (CX), contact centers, pharmaceutical, and healthcare to create a cannabis-specific value proposition. Created reciprocal partnerships with leading global cannabis conferences to establish brand recognition and a faster brand launch.

Identified, recruited, and coordinated a corporate advisory board comprised of some of the leading minds in cannabis, CPG, data sciences, and healthcare.

Vice President Of Business Strategy

Rider University

Cannabis Curriculum - Teaching a capstone class called SOC 143 “From Plant Profession. The focus of this class is to round out the student's learnings and introduce them to practical insights and strategies to enter and grow within the cannabis sector.  Interviewing cannabis industry executives to provide real-world insights from various areas of the industry.

Adjunct Professor

Rolling Stone Culture Council

Official Member / Contributer 

New Jersey CannaBusiness Association

Promote jobs and growth in a sustainable and responsible cannabis industry. Starting with the pioneers in the medical cannabis market to the emerging players in the adult-use space, our focus is to make certain that decision makers and regulators understand and respect the needs of the CannaBusiness community and that our community remain responsible corporate citizens.

Strategic Advisor

PharmaCentra

PharmaCentra is a pharmaceutical and healthcare management contact center provider. We offer a wide range of services including:  physician/ pharmacy/ and patient outreach and support, mobile health, and clinical trial recruitment.

https://pharmacentra.com/

Concentra Solutions

Founded in 1991, Concentra Solutions is a premier provider of contact center, third party quality assurance and sales verification services.

With locations in both the United States and Canada and work-at-home, we partner with internal and outsourced contact centers to provide insights and recommendations to drive performance and operational improvements.

Vice President of Business Strategy

National Cannabis Industry Association

The MAC includes developing best practices in cannabis industry marketing; opening dialogues with major media outlets that ban most or all cannabis-related advertising; holding in-person or virtual educational events for NCIA members; and developing educational content that supports the industry.

NCIA Marketing & Advertising Committee Member

Professional Association for Customer Engagement (PACE)

Chair of the Mid-Atlantic region for this Customer Experience (CX) professional association.  Responsible for recruiting and leading the regional board of directors, which includes global brands. Facilitate meetings, events, legislative updates, educational forums, business strategy, compliance protocols, and professional networking.

Chairperson: Mid Atlantic Region

Zero Variance

Recruited to rejoin the Zero Variance executive team.  Zero Variance is a provider actionable business intelligence for contact-centers.

Successful secured and grew a portfolio of Fortune 500 logos through strategic opportunity identification and the creation of custom-tailored solutions.  Hybrid role of new business development and customer experience (CX) consultant.

Vice President

J.Lodge

Responsible for successfully driving the largest annual growth in corporate history during tenure. Over 38% of top-line revenue add, through bringing and growing new clients in one year.

Senior Vice President

An accomplished senior executive with a proven history of sparking new business ventures, fostering organic growth, and executing impactful business strategies. Specialized in direct marketing, consistently surpassing revenue targets within challenging business environments. Adept at building enduring relationships, cultivating loyalty, and delivering exceptional outcomes.

Recognized for innovating new business lines and introducing cutting-edge services across diverse industries. Also, an adjunct professor at Rider University, integrating academic insights with practical expertise. Extensive experience and a well-established network spanning healthcare, pharmaceuticals, financial services, insurance, contact centers, and the evolving cannabis industry. Repeatedly recruited back to previous organizations for increasingly senior roles, showcasing a proven ability to create significant value.

taplio

The Battle

Kieve Huffman

Marshall Ogen

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?